Communication category: 5490 books
Communicating and Organizing in Context
The Theory of Structurational Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
*Communicating and Organizing in Context *integrates Giddens’ structuration theory with Goffman’s interaction order and develops a new theoretical base—the theory of structurational interaction—for the analysis of communicating and organizing. Both theorists emphasize tacit knowledge, social...
Scientific and Medical Communication
A Guide for Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Scientific and Medical Communication: A Guide for Effective Practice prepares readers to effectively communicate in professional scientific communities. The material in this book is firmly grounded in more than 500 published research findings and editorials by scientific writers, authors, and journal...
The C-SPAN Archives
An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and preserves all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, and research uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, from all House and Senate sessions in the US Congress, to hearings, presidential speeches, conventions, and campaign events, totaling over...
More Effective Communication
A Manual for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
Effective communication skills have become essential for professionals who wish to achieve the desired levels of performance in today`s increasingly competitive business environment. This practical guide will help professionals to communicate skilfully and persuasively.
Group Communication Pitfalls
Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Group Communication Pitfalls: Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience treats groups and the work involved in grouping as useful tools humans have developed for responding to pressures or demands faced by group members. This book assumes an orientation that expects and detects group pitfalls...
Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics
Activist Nation Rising
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising demonstrates the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The rise of the modern Internet and social media platforms have allowed for the proliferation of alternative media across...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Internet in China reflects many contradictions and complexities of the society in which it is embedded. Despite the growing significance of digital media and communication technologies, research on their contingent, non-linear, and sometimes paradoxical impact on civic engagement remains theoretically...
by Dr Richard Gwyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
`There has been a pressing need for a book like this for some time. Gwyn cogently reviews the literature on discourse analysis as it pertains to medical and health matters. Introducing original research from his own studies allows him to vividly illustrate just how important it is to understand the...
Research Outside The Academy
Professional Knowledge-Making in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book analyses the practical, information-related dimensions of professional knowledge making and communication in extra-academic organisations. It treats the sites where research takes place and where knowledge is created outside academia in the light, among other things, of new digital resources....
by Suzanne Mccorkle, Stephanie Witt
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book fills the need for a communication-based, public sector framed book. The authors combine just enough basic theory about communication with specific skill development in areas of immediate interest to those who work in the public sector. It also features a strong "practice" orientation,...
Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape
Perspectives from Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information...
Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions
A Multimodal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Winner of the AIA Book Prize for a research monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics (2016)
Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in...
by Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In recent years, communication scholars have taken a renewed interest in analyzing the audience and its impact on the communication process. Similarly, news editors and producers have often turned toward a marketing orientation which seeks to give new readers and viewers what they want, or at least...
Actionable Media
Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
In 1991, Mark Weiser and his team at Xerox PARC declared they were reinventing computers for the twenty-first century. The computer would become integrated into the fabric of everyday life; it would shift to the background rather than being itself an object of focus. The resulting rise of ubiquitous...